And the only welcome news from the business / consumer standpoint would be the immediate release of a Phenom III with 12+ cores. Probably the only thing, even with a socket change, that would keep AMD still relevant on the desktop after the Bulldozer fiasco (current reviews of Piledriver are very disappointing, with nothing but a minor speed bump).
Wait, are you serious? Last I checked, most teachers were earning well over the US median wage, with a few of them earning much more than that. Only a handful are earning anything near a below standard salary -> we've heard it in the press, how they're earning $10-30,000 more than the median wage of the people of their surrounding community.
On top of that, I don't know of a teacher alive who wouldn't testify against the corruption of the administrators / supervisors of their school districts. Not one.
You see, there is a lot, and I mean a lot, of money flowing into the school system; that it is not getting to where it is intended is a different matter from whether there is enough flowing into it. And yes, hypothetically speaking, if we increase the amount going in by 10%, the teachers at the bottom might see a 0.01% increase in their pay-checks, but it would be an insult to the common gentlemen's intelligence to pursue this course.
Indeed. I tire of this chicanery, where we are told to (politely) lie or change our words simply because the truth offends.
And I especially despise the lower classes view that everything be held as a status symbol. Your natural vocabulary is more than 300 words? You must be talking over to me to point out how inferior I am! You drive a nice car? It must be a status symbol! You went abroad for vacation? There's you showing how much you earn again!
As Freud would say, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes a person's actions are simply that, and the conjured reasons / innate biases behind them purely imagined.
That is partially what I wish to address here. That we are so hell bent on how someone says something, whether they grovel the acceptable amount, or deflect praise to simulate humility, that we are focusing, often times to an exclusion, on how something is said, rather than on what is being said.
There's an author of absurd fantasy novels, I think many of you know him: Terry Pratchett; and I think that in many respects, these kinds of situations are something of a staple to his writings. I believe the Counterweight Continent touches on this anachronisms, where an entire society was more focused on whether a minister could write proper poetry when applying for a plumbing job, than whether he could actually perform it. Perhaps that is why humanity seems to be taking so long to get somewhere nice. We are simply too focused on complaining about how the square pegs refuse to fit into the round holes.
Indeed. It appears they are desperate to recreate the market segmentation stuff they learned about in their Intro to Economics class, because they think it will earn them more money. Nevermind you need to banjax a government's laws to make it happen, which gives rise to all sorts of horrible side-effects. If you account for all the bribes to pass those laws, I think it would be hard to argue that they're breaking even.
'Tis a jobs program, and nothing more. Even the congressmen who are against the idea of the TSA are busy spinning it as providing jobs to their constituents.
Which is funny on so many levels. We all know that the TSA was built on a lie, we all know that it is worthless, we all know that it is bleeding the taxpayers dry, and we all know that we'd be better off without it. And yet, they're going to keep it, because jobs. Jobs which provide no net income, jobs which cost three times more than they are worth, jobs with glass ceilings built in, jobs which do not help America to grow anywhere but the waistline, and yet, they are so desperate to protect them. The money they are earning in kickbacks must be tremendous.
Hopefully not, but throwing free high-end ATI/AMD hardware at developers would be an excellent idea to level the playing field with Nvidia (who already does this).
Now if they can convince the CPU team to weld two Phenom II X6s together, I'd be happier. F*ck hyperthreading, f*ck it in the ass. It was horrible when Intel implemented it (it's a speedup that sometimes work for you, sometimes against you, and sometimes not at all!; plus the part where Windows thought it had two CPUs, instead of one, and would continuously schedule stuff on the second 'free' CPU was just hours of entertainment), and it's horrible when AMD implemented it.
Guys, I want real cores. I don't care if you have to reintroduce multiple sockets for consumer motherboards to make it happen; if anything, having seen the motherboards they are trying to offload on the server market lately, it would be a major improvement. And I don't really care if I need a new motherboard for it, but please include a liquid cooling solution, or at least the processor clamp, if you think things are going to get toasty. Processor shim will set you back like $5 in large quantities.
Just what integrated motherboard chipset / value video card did you purchase from the back of a white van to come up with that line of reasoning?
As with all video cards, buy from people who don't have a history of pissing off their customers with silly design decisions. To this end, I enjoy HIS, but have heard that Asus / Powercolor / a few others are equally capable.
And even more interesting is how many of the big name acquisitions / mergers of the past five years have been complete miscalculations. Company A acquires / merges with Company B, issues some blurb about how it's synergistic, stock price rises a quarter (as in $0.25), wait two years, Company A is bankrupt / driven into the ground. It's only because it seems to be happening so often these days that I have noticed it.
I must be from the old school of thought, where acquiring / merging meant increasing the company's capacity / lowering long-term costs. Nowadays, you can't even be sure an IPO will not be the high-water mark of a business. A decade ago? Investors made out when the company went IPO. Today? Investors make out only if they sell before the IPO. Me thinks something is broken, and getting worse. I hear a distinct rattling / grinding noise that I am fairly certain shouldn't be there.
Agreed. If I have to wait more than 15 secs from program execution to program start (i.e. I get to sit through the splash screen parade), I am not happy.
And programmers, in general, tend to earn more than the populace median. They also tend to put out more billionaires than almost any other sector that comes to mind.
You may as well have said, suck it up lawyers / doctors, remember, half of doctors / lawyers are below the mean.
Because apparently politics has infiltrated the recruiting process, and endeavours to bring the kind of changes that has seen Greece on the edge of a revolution.
Personally, I'd prefer not to work for a company where you had to constantly be on your toes about saying the wrong thing, and where advancement was determined by your place in the ass-kidding line. My own research of the industry ( as well as others) says that no company that engages in this kind of behaviour tends to last more than a decade. If anything, it's a sign that the company is doing poorly, and has the wrong people in the wrong places.
The founders of a company were interested in getting shit done / making a cool profit / achieving something great. When you replace that culture with one of perpetual fear, and a focus on inter-office politics, chances are your founders have left, and the new guys are trying to find a way to 'spin-off' the cash-making components in a sweet deal, so they can slowly cut, cut, and cut, until the company goes bankrupt.
That may make me unemployable, but it's true, and I stand by it.
Or when you have a few year's salary in your savings account. The "I can wait until the earth ices over" approach to finding a job tends to yield better results.
Indeed. I have noticed that they get offended when you ask the important, but prickly questions, yet have no qualms doing the same for yourself.
Like it or not, you're two beings trying to find out if you're right for each other. As such, it's better to ask those questions upfront, rather than spend a year of your life, only to find out the answer is disagreeable.
75% of the the coding industry is filled with prima donnas. Good luck changing that.
The same kind of obsession that gives you a prima donna gives you one the one guy who is willing to spend 72 hours without sleep to fix that one, major, annoying bug before launch, and justifiably is treated like the princess because of that.
People who think that programming is just a 9-5 job where you punch in, turn on your brain, do work, punch out, turn off your brain, are the bane of this industry. They'd be just as happy washing cars for 18 hours a day, and aren't necessarily interested in solving an annoying problem once and for all. They're just interested in a job, any job, so long as it's doing rote work and getting paid an hourly wage. No passion for technology.
But dude, it's going to be okay, they plan on outsourcing IT to the "cloud" when they institute BYOD to work, thus hitting both birds with one stone. It's the "cloud"...it's magic!
Meanwhile, the recently laid-off IT staff will be borrowing from relatives to short their former company's stock, figuring that they can't possibly last 6 months.
Yeah, get back to us when tablets have more than 64GBs of storage, and don't need to be tethered to a wifi to get things done.
Some of us have lasted through the net wars between Netscape / mainframe-style thinking and Microsoft / local-machine style thinking. Microsoft, like it or not, won, because owning the last mile is what's important when designing a killer app. Stuff on the net versus local, local wins, at the end of the day. Just watch.
And you may ask, why is MS trying the net approach now, when they've owned local? Look who is at the helm -> it's the same kind of thinking that sank Sun MicroSystems. MS will tank for forgetting to protect the home turf, not because the home turf was unprofitable.
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Hmm. Perhaps we need a part swapper website. "Offering 2 sticks of Corsair DDR2 4 GB RAM, looking for a Nvidia / ATI PCIe video card."
Fair enough, then the common law.
Make it an executable offence for law enforcement of any type to fail to uphold the public good.
And the only welcome news from the business / consumer standpoint would be the immediate release of a Phenom III with 12+ cores. Probably the only thing, even with a socket change, that would keep AMD still relevant on the desktop after the Bulldozer fiasco (current reviews of Piledriver are very disappointing, with nothing but a minor speed bump).
Wait, are you serious? Last I checked, most teachers were earning well over the US median wage, with a few of them earning much more than that. Only a handful are earning anything near a below standard salary -> we've heard it in the press, how they're earning $10-30,000 more than the median wage of the people of their surrounding community.
On top of that, I don't know of a teacher alive who wouldn't testify against the corruption of the administrators / supervisors of their school districts. Not one.
You see, there is a lot, and I mean a lot, of money flowing into the school system; that it is not getting to where it is intended is a different matter from whether there is enough flowing into it. And yes, hypothetically speaking, if we increase the amount going in by 10%, the teachers at the bottom might see a 0.01% increase in their pay-checks, but it would be an insult to the common gentlemen's intelligence to pursue this course.
Then perhaps we need a second set of hands, to occupy the first set?
Indeed. I tire of this chicanery, where we are told to (politely) lie or change our words simply because the truth offends.
And I especially despise the lower classes view that everything be held as a status symbol. Your natural vocabulary is more than 300 words? You must be talking over to me to point out how inferior I am! You drive a nice car? It must be a status symbol! You went abroad for vacation? There's you showing how much you earn again!
As Freud would say, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Sometimes a person's actions are simply that, and the conjured reasons / innate biases behind them purely imagined.
That is partially what I wish to address here. That we are so hell bent on how someone says something, whether they grovel the acceptable amount, or deflect praise to simulate humility, that we are focusing, often times to an exclusion, on how something is said, rather than on what is being said.
There's an author of absurd fantasy novels, I think many of you know him: Terry Pratchett; and I think that in many respects, these kinds of situations are something of a staple to his writings. I believe the Counterweight Continent touches on this anachronisms, where an entire society was more focused on whether a minister could write proper poetry when applying for a plumbing job, than whether he could actually perform it. Perhaps that is why humanity seems to be taking so long to get somewhere nice. We are simply too focused on complaining about how the square pegs refuse to fit into the round holes.
Indeed. It appears they are desperate to recreate the market segmentation stuff they learned about in their Intro to Economics class, because they think it will earn them more money. Nevermind you need to banjax a government's laws to make it happen, which gives rise to all sorts of horrible side-effects. If you account for all the bribes to pass those laws, I think it would be hard to argue that they're breaking even.
Do you want me to point out the flaw in that argument, or can you spot it yourself?
And on a side note, you seem to be one of the few, active named accounts I'm still seeing on /. these days. Where'd everyone go?
'Tis a jobs program, and nothing more. Even the congressmen who are against the idea of the TSA are busy spinning it as providing jobs to their constituents.
Which is funny on so many levels. We all know that the TSA was built on a lie, we all know that it is worthless, we all know that it is bleeding the taxpayers dry, and we all know that we'd be better off without it. And yet, they're going to keep it, because jobs. Jobs which provide no net income, jobs which cost three times more than they are worth, jobs with glass ceilings built in, jobs which do not help America to grow anywhere but the waistline, and yet, they are so desperate to protect them. The money they are earning in kickbacks must be tremendous.
Ah, for all values of random where random = any flag in a DHS database anywhere.
Just so thrilled that we have discrimination down to a science.
Hopefully not, but throwing free high-end ATI/AMD hardware at developers would be an excellent idea to level the playing field with Nvidia (who already does this).
Now if they can convince the CPU team to weld two Phenom II X6s together, I'd be happier. F*ck hyperthreading, f*ck it in the ass. It was horrible when Intel implemented it (it's a speedup that sometimes work for you, sometimes against you, and sometimes not at all!; plus the part where Windows thought it had two CPUs, instead of one, and would continuously schedule stuff on the second 'free' CPU was just hours of entertainment), and it's horrible when AMD implemented it.
Guys, I want real cores. I don't care if you have to reintroduce multiple sockets for consumer motherboards to make it happen; if anything, having seen the motherboards they are trying to offload on the server market lately, it would be a major improvement. And I don't really care if I need a new motherboard for it, but please include a liquid cooling solution, or at least the processor clamp, if you think things are going to get toasty. Processor shim will set you back like $5 in large quantities.
Just what integrated motherboard chipset / value video card did you purchase from the back of a white van to come up with that line of reasoning?
As with all video cards, buy from people who don't have a history of pissing off their customers with silly design decisions. To this end, I enjoy HIS, but have heard that Asus / Powercolor / a few others are equally capable.
And even more interesting is how many of the big name acquisitions / mergers of the past five years have been complete miscalculations. Company A acquires / merges with Company B, issues some blurb about how it's synergistic, stock price rises a quarter (as in $0.25), wait two years, Company A is bankrupt / driven into the ground. It's only because it seems to be happening so often these days that I have noticed it.
I must be from the old school of thought, where acquiring / merging meant increasing the company's capacity / lowering long-term costs. Nowadays, you can't even be sure an IPO will not be the high-water mark of a business. A decade ago? Investors made out when the company went IPO. Today? Investors make out only if they sell before the IPO. Me thinks something is broken, and getting worse. I hear a distinct rattling / grinding noise that I am fairly certain shouldn't be there.
You're either missing a '1' in front of those versions, or it's time to invest in a new video card.
The latest was 12.8, last I checked.
Hmm. Last I checked, they were about the same in performance. Have things changed?
Who are you people buying from that you run into these problems?
Catalyst has functioned fine for eons.
Agreed. If I have to wait more than 15 secs from program execution to program start (i.e. I get to sit through the splash screen parade), I am not happy.
And programmers, in general, tend to earn more than the populace median. They also tend to put out more billionaires than almost any other sector that comes to mind.
You may as well have said, suck it up lawyers / doctors, remember, half of doctors / lawyers are below the mean.
Because apparently politics has infiltrated the recruiting process, and endeavours to bring the kind of changes that has seen Greece on the edge of a revolution.
Personally, I'd prefer not to work for a company where you had to constantly be on your toes about saying the wrong thing, and where advancement was determined by your place in the ass-kidding line. My own research of the industry ( as well as others) says that no company that engages in this kind of behaviour tends to last more than a decade. If anything, it's a sign that the company is doing poorly, and has the wrong people in the wrong places.
The founders of a company were interested in getting shit done / making a cool profit / achieving something great. When you replace that culture with one of perpetual fear, and a focus on inter-office politics, chances are your founders have left, and the new guys are trying to find a way to 'spin-off' the cash-making components in a sweet deal, so they can slowly cut, cut, and cut, until the company goes bankrupt.
That may make me unemployable, but it's true, and I stand by it.
Or when you have a few year's salary in your savings account. The "I can wait until the earth ices over" approach to finding a job tends to yield better results.
Indeed. I have noticed that they get offended when you ask the important, but prickly questions, yet have no qualms doing the same for yourself.
Like it or not, you're two beings trying to find out if you're right for each other. As such, it's better to ask those questions upfront, rather than spend a year of your life, only to find out the answer is disagreeable.
75% of the the coding industry is filled with prima donnas. Good luck changing that.
The same kind of obsession that gives you a prima donna gives you one the one guy who is willing to spend 72 hours without sleep to fix that one, major, annoying bug before launch, and justifiably is treated like the princess because of that.
People who think that programming is just a 9-5 job where you punch in, turn on your brain, do work, punch out, turn off your brain, are the bane of this industry. They'd be just as happy washing cars for 18 hours a day, and aren't necessarily interested in solving an annoying problem once and for all. They're just interested in a job, any job, so long as it's doing rote work and getting paid an hourly wage. No passion for technology.
But dude, it's going to be okay, they plan on outsourcing IT to the "cloud" when they institute BYOD to work, thus hitting both birds with one stone. It's the "cloud"...it's magic!
Meanwhile, the recently laid-off IT staff will be borrowing from relatives to short their former company's stock, figuring that they can't possibly last 6 months.
Yeah, get back to us when tablets have more than 64GBs of storage, and don't need to be tethered to a wifi to get things done.
Some of us have lasted through the net wars between Netscape / mainframe-style thinking and Microsoft / local-machine style thinking. Microsoft, like it or not, won, because owning the last mile is what's important when designing a killer app. Stuff on the net versus local, local wins, at the end of the day. Just watch.
And you may ask, why is MS trying the net approach now, when they've owned local? Look who is at the helm -> it's the same kind of thinking that sank Sun MicroSystems. MS will tank for forgetting to protect the home turf, not because the home turf was unprofitable.